Daniel Paille scored 13:48 into the extra session of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals on Saturday night, giving the Boston Bruins a 2-1 victory and tying the best-of-seven series at a game apiece.

The shot was no fluke like the double deflection that Andrew Shaw scored on to lift Chicago in Game 1's third overtime session. Paille got a pass from Tyler Seguin, and in open ice on the left side of the Blackhawks' zone, whipped a wrist shot off the far post and in.

During a fast-paced start to overtime, with the teams trading chances in seeming desperation to avoid another all-nighter, the Blackhawks caught a break when Nick Leddy appeared to commit a puck-over-glass penalty. It was ruled that the puck deflected off Paille's stick, so there was no power play to be had for Boston. Paille had the last laugh.

Chicago was on the wrong end of the most controversial call in regulation, as Marian Hossa had a goal disallowed that would have provided the Blackhawks a 2-0 lead. Patrick Sharp had already scored, and Hossa's goal not counting because of an early whistle meant that Chris Kelly's goal in the second period was enough to tie the game and set up another dramatic finish.

This is the second straight year that the first two games of the finals have gone to overtime after it 61 years without that happening. Last year, the Los Angeles Kings won both games in New Jersey in the extra session, and went on to beat the Devils in six games.

TENSE TIME: The third period felt very much like a regular overtime, although without the sudden-death element, of course. Both teams played cautiously, and chances were few and far between.

The amount of offense being generated was not helped by the usual tightening of rules interpretations by the men in stripes. Kelly was able to get away with regular season penalty-level obstruction on Patrick Kane entering the Boston zone, while the same could be said of a Johnny Oduya takedown of Patrice Bergeron going the other way.

The issue was not that either team would have scored more on the power play, because both teams have struggled with the man advantage, but players knowing they can get away with more leads to fewer opportunities and the kind of sluggish action that was on display in the third period, with only 13 combined shots—eight for Boston.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Kelly's first point of the playoffs came on a rebound of a short-range Paille shot, and Crawford had no way to see it, as the Boston winger used Kane as a human shield as he poked the puck into the net.

Boston was fortunate to be tied after two periods, having been outshot 23-12, but did start playing much better after the tying goal, Dennis Seidenberg tripping penalty on Brandon Saad aside. After a strong penalty kill that included Brad Marchand hitting the post with a shorthanded chance, the Bruins got a power play as a result of Oduya tripping Marchand.

Jaromir Jagr, who nearly scored a power play goal at the end of the second overtime in Game 1, nearly scored before the second period ended on Saturday, but Crawford made a pair of saves on the 41-year-old legend before the intermission.

Jagr then came close to a goal at the beginning of overtime, beating Crawford but hitting the post.

The goal capped as dominant an offensive shift as any team has had in the playoffs, with Rask making four saves—one on Sharp, two on Kane, one on Michal Rozsival—before Rask finally fired one home, through traffic, from the right circle.

It took 14:58 of the second period for the Bruins to pass Sharp's shot total—on the Paille shot that preceded Kelly's tying goal.

WHISTLE BLOWS IT: Sharp wasn't the only player to outshoot the Bruins in the first period. Hossa had five shots in the opening 20 minutes, a figure that fails to include the goal he had waved off.

It was 70 seconds after Sharp's goal that Jonathan Toews tried a wraparound that Rask saved, followed by Hossa pushing the goaltender's legs into the net, along with the puck. The call on the ice was no goal, and even though replays showed that the puck went fully over the goal line, it was ruled that the whistle had blown the play dead.

When the announcement of no goal was made in the arena, there was no indication from referee Wes McCauley of why the goal had been disallowed, only that the call on the ice stood. McCauley's decision to keep his announcement simple may or may not have stemmed from the fact that he was the one who had blown the play dead.